Better late than never with the Nov. 16 edition of MEDIA INDIGENA on ‘THE WORD’ with host Lady V and MI’s Rick Harp as they discuss Aboriginal accounts to follow on Twitter for political junkies, and how Canada’s “Statement of Support” for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples got immediately tested […]
UPDATE (Nov 24, 2010): Hours after originally penning this piece, I realized I needed to make my point better and more fairly about how the data has been misrepresented, and by whom. Accordingly, I wish to clarify here that INAC did in fact track and present the data for travel, honoraria and salary separately (though […]
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) has posted what it claims are “new jaw-dropping chief and council pay data today that reinforces the CTF’s call for greater transparency of reserve politicians’ pay levels and the need for reform.” (Oddly, as an illustration for the item, they have a picture of anonymous powwow dancers. So that’s what […]
Ho-leh, did the sparks fly at this debate in Vancouver. First, a little backstory: Ezra Levant, author of Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands, was originally scheduled to face off against Ben West of the Wilderness Committee over the premise of Levant’s book. And for most of the night, that’s just what they […]
About six months ago, the Globe and Mail‘s Christie Blatchford filed a series of courthouse dispatches from Hamilton, ON regarding the case of a Caledonia, ON family and their $7 million lawsuit against the Ontario government for failing to protect them from “the natives” (of Six Nations) as a result of the Caledonia land conflict. […]
